Flintshire

County of Flintshire

Sir y Fflint

Geography
Area - Total - % Water	Ranked 12th 438 km² ? %
Admin HQ	Mold
ONS code	00NJ
Demographics
Population: - Total (2007 est.) - Density	Ranked 6th 150,500 Ranked 11th 344 / km²
Ethnicity	97.8% White 1.0% South Asian
Welsh language - Any skills	Ranked 12th 21.4%
Politics
Flintshire County Council http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/
Control	NOC (Independent-led coalition)
MPs	David Hanson Mark Tami
AMs	Sandy Mewies Carl Sargeant (Constituency) North Wales (Regional)
MEPs	Wales

Flintshire (Welsh: Sir y Fflint) is a county in north-east Wales. It borders Cheshire, Denbighshire, and Wrexham. It is named for the historic county of Flintshire, which had notably different borders. The county is governed by Flintshire County Council.

History

The current administrative area of Flintshire (a unitary authority) came into existence in 1996, when the former administrative county of Clwyd was split into three smaller areas. The principal area was formed by the merger of the Alyn and Deeside and Delyn districts. In terms of pre-1974 divisions, the area comprises

• the former borough of Flint
• the urban districts of Buckley, Connah's Quay, Holywell, Mold
• the rural district of Holywell Rural District
• all of Hawarden Rural District except the parish of Marford and Hosley

The district of Rhuddlan, which was also formed entirely from the administrative county of Flintshire was included in the new Denbighshire instead. Other parts of the pre-1974 administrative Flintshire to be excluded from the principal area are the Maelor Rural District and the parish of Marford and Hoseley, which became part of the Wrexham Maelor district in 1974 and are now part of Wrexham County Borough.

Geography

See List of places in Flintshire for a list of towns and villages.

Flintshire borders Wrexham, Denbighshire, and the English counties of Merseyside (across the River Dee) and Cheshire.

Industry

Parts of Flintshire have major manufacturing industries. Amongst these are a Toyota plant that manufactures engines, a Corus Group steelworks and Shotton Paper, but most importantly Airbus, making the wings for the A330 and the A380 at Broughton.

There are daily flights of the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft of Airbus wings from Broughton for the smaller aircraft. The wings for the A380, which are too large to be transported by air use a multi-modal transport using Flintshire's roads, the River Dee and the port of Mostyn, also in Flintshire. The motto of Airbus in Flintshire is: "Without us, it's just a bus"; meaning that the parts that make Airbus aircraft fly, rather than just run along the ground, are made in Flintshire.

Flintshire is also known for its internet companies, the largest and most well known being Moneysupermarket.com based in Ewloe and Fireplacemegastore.co.uk based in Deeside both of which started in and continue to support a large amount of Flintshire's employment.

Fairtrade

On November 19, 2004, Flintshire was granted Fairtrade County status.

Education

Flintshire Local Education Authority manages 75 primary schools, 3 special schools and 12 high schools.

External links

• Flintshire at the Open Directory Project
• Flintshire archaeological information
• Chester Recognizance Rolls calendar surname-indexed with scans

Flintshire Principal settlements Buckley • Connah's Quay • Deeside • Ewloe • Flint • Hawarden • Holywell • Mold • Queensferry • Shotton Communities (categorised list) Abermorddu • Afon-wen • Alltami • Aston Park • Bagillt • Bretton • Broughton • Bryn-y-Baal • Brynford • Cadole • Caergwrle • Caerwys • Calcoed • Carmel • Cefn-y-Bedd • Cilcain • Coed Talon • Cymau • Drury • Ffrith • Flint Mountain • Ffynnongroew • Greenfield • Gronant • Glyncorrwg • Gwernymynydd • Halkyn • Holway • Higher Kinnerton • Hope • Leeswood • Llanfynydd  • Llanasa • Leadmill • Mancot • Mostyn • Mynydd Isa • Nannerch • Nercwys • Northop • Northop Hall • Oakenholt • Pantasaph • Pantymwyn • Pentre Halkyn • Penyffordd (Buckley) • Pen-y-Ffordd (Holywell) • Penymynydd • Pontblyddyn • Rhosesmor • Rhes-y-Cae • Rhydymwyn • Sealand • Soughton/Sychdyn • Saltney • Saltney Ferry • Talacre • Trelogan • Treuddyn • Whitford • Ysceifiog See also: More communities • Wards Geography Alyn Gorge • Basingwerk Abbey • Bretton Bridge • Caerwys Rectory • Clwydian Range • Caergwrle Castle • Dee Estuary • Ewloe Castle • Flint Castle • Flintshire Bridge • The Gop • Greenfield Valley Heritage Park • Hawarden Castle • Holy Trinity Church • Moel Famau • Moel y Gaer • Moel y Parc • Mold Castle • Mostyn Colliery • Nant-y-Ffrith • Ogof Nadolig • Point of Ayr • Point of Ayr Gas Terminal • River Alyn • River Cegidog • River Dee • River Terrig • St Bartholomew's Church • St Mary's Church (Cilcain) • St Mary's Church (Halkyn) • St Mary's Church (Mold) • St Winefride's Well • Talacre Beach • Wepre Park See also The historic county • The UK Parliament constituency • Alyn and Deeside • Broughton Shopping Park • Delyn • East Flintshire • Flintshire County Council • Flintshire Local Education Authority • Holywell Rural District • Maelor Saesneg • Maelor Rural District • Mold cape • Point of Ayr Colliery Company • Prestatyn Coal Company • RAF Sealand • Borough of Rhuddlan • West Flintshire • Western Mostyn Colliery Company Categories: History • Notable people • Sport • Visitor attractions The five largest urban areas are marked in bold text.